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Originally Posted by tommykins  Refer to my post - my primary school taught nothing within the selective schools exam. |
I share this view. Primary schools struggle to cater for kids who are way behind. So smart kids are neglected. The experience that I had to teach my own kids a lot of things confirm this. Smart kids who sit among kids that perform at so low level get nothing much from teachers at a normal primary schools. It's different if teh kids are in a private school that charges 12K/year. But at a free public school in most suburbs, the kids get bored with easy stuff for many years.
Another reason offered to me that I forgot to mention is that they claim even the kids at the bottom of the pile at selective school score about 70%-80% in their tests and essays. They claim that coaching places (or tutors) give them a chance to move to 90+% level. I find this rather suspicious. It seems to say "Coaching places teach much better than selective schools teachers".
Hopefully some kids who are in selective schools right now and spend so much of their time at various coaching places can share their experience and shed light on this problem.